Charles glover



(No Model.)

0 GLOVER COAT AND HAT HOOK.

No. 447,510. Patented Mar. 3,1891.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES CLOVER, OF NEWV BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO P. d: F.. CORBIN, OF SAME PLACE.

COAT AND HAT HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 4$7,510, dated March 3, 1891. Application filed September 6, 1890- Serial No. 364,098. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES GLOVER, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Britain, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coat and Hat Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in coat and hat hooks; and the objects of my improvements are simplicity and economy in construction, general efficiency in the finished article, and to enable the parts to be constructed of sheet-iron and iron wire.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of my hook. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a rear elevation. Fig. 4: is a plan View. Fig. 5 is a detached side elevation of the hooks and connecting body. Fig. 6 is a plan view of the blank for forming the socket-plate, and Fig. 7 is a detached front elevation of the socketplate as formed ready to receive the ,hook shown in Fig. 5.

I form the hooks A B of a single piece of wire, preferably with integral heads 8 at their ends, and with a middle portion 11 connecting said hooks. This middle portion is flattened at its back side, as shown at Figs. 3 and 5, so as to somewhat broaden said back side.

I form the socket-plate C from a blank like that shown in Fig. 6, the same being provided with lugs 9 9 at each end, with a semicircular notch between them. I then swage the middle portion of said plate to form a vertical socket 10, the rear side of which is longer than its front, as shown in Fig. 7. The socket-- plate C and hooks A B are then put together with the middleportion 11 resting in the socket of the socket-plate, and they are secured together by bending the lugs 9 around the rear side of the wire, so as to embrace the hooks at their base, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4. The back of the middle portion 11 is flattened and below the straight middle portion and where the hooks extend forwardly from the upper and lower ends of said middle portion, so as to support said hooks at points forward of the rear of the socket, whereby the hooks are rigidly held within said socket-plate.

By the employment of dies for swaging or bending the lugs 9 9 around the bases of the hooks the parts may be cheaply and firmly secured together. This construction also enables me to form the parts of iron, or of the cheaper metals which are not so ductile as brass or copper.

I am aware that an English patent shows and describes a coat and hat hook formed of wire and having a connecting body between its upper and lower hooks, and a sheet-metal plate having lugs that are bent forwardly over upon the front side of said connecting-body without embracing any forwardly-extending portion of said hooks, and the same is hereby disclaimed.

I claim as my inventiou The herein-described coat and hat hook, consisting of the hooks A B and connecting body 11, and the socket-plate C, having a socket on its back side, with a solid wall of metal in front of said connecting body, and having projections or lugs 9 at each of its up per and lower corners, which lugs are turned rearwardly and embrace the bases of said hooks at points above and below said connecting body and in front of its rear side, substantially as described, and for the purpose specified.

CHARLES GLOVER.

Witnesses:

O. A. BLAIR, G. E. Roor. 

